Word: verdun
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...killed at Verdun died over a period of 299 days...
Best bet was that Gamelin had been put on the shelf, joining the spiritual company of his old chief General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, who in World War I bungled at Verdun, and General Charles Louis Marie Lanrezac, who boggled at Charleroi...
...France, the first known casualties of the war among newsmen occurred on a road between Verdun and Paris. An Army truck ran broadside into a press car carrying John Elliott of the New York Herald Tribune, William Henry Chamberlin of the Christian Science Monitor. Elliott was hospitalized with cuts from flying glass, a broken bone in his foot. Chamberlin escaped with a few small cuts...
...inevitable. Prime Minister Churchill (who named the fight then raging "The Battle of the Bulge") flew to Paris for a meeting of the Allied War Council. Premier Reynaud announced that the moment had come for "a change of men and methods." He called Marshall Pétain, hero of Verdun, to be his adviser, himself took charge of the Defense Ministry...
Shining symbol of French courage and resistance is aged Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain, who not only repelled the Germans at Verdun in 1916 but restored the spirit of victory in the French Forces in the dark days of '17. More than once in the past five troubled years the old man has been talked of as the man to rally a united France. Times had never been worse than they were last week when the legendary defender of France, firm and erect at 83, returned from his Ambassadorship to Spain to become Vice Premier in Paul...